Meet The EcoSolutions Team & Book a Lesson With Us
EcoSolutions is one of CBEC's enterprises which provides waste minimisation education throughout Northland.
EcoSolutions was formed over 17 years ago as a community environmental hub that provided advice on minimising waste and protecting the local environment from activities that cause pollution and degradation.
EcoSolutions focus is waste minimisation education and implementing behaviour change towards how we perceive and deal with waste in our homes, our businesses and the local community. Waste minimisation programmes are delivered to schools, businesses and community groups in an effort to divert waste from going to landfill.
We educate business and the community on how much of what is going to landfills is a potential resource that could otherwise be re used, recycled or repurposed.
Get to know our awesome EcoSolutions team
We bring a vast variety of experience but are all united by our passion for waste minimisation and a more sustainable future.
We're from all over Northland and are based mostly at either our Whangārei or Kaitaia offices.
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Jo Shanks EcoSolutions Manager |
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Far North Environmental Educator jewel@cbec.co.nz |
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Sharee Cawley Far North Environmental Educator Our Far North and Doubtless Bay Eco Educator has been working with schools, organisations and the community to protect sand dunes and our wildlife, now she is leading change in schools and organisations. Reducing waste, caring for Papatūānuku and increasing happiness is her specialty! to book a lesson email sharee@cbec.co.nz |
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Anouk van Donzel Mid North Environmental Educator |
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Judy Keats Whangārei Environmental Educator Judy brings a wealth of knowledge to this role especially in composting, food forests and gardening. Judy is excited to run community events in Whangārei. She delivers at least one community event series each month such as composting workshops, Love Food Hate Waste workshops or making plastic-free household product alternatives. Judy also focuses on supporting existing community events to become zero-waste through working with them to divert as much waste as they can from landfill through recycling and composting. |
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Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn (Ngāti Kurī and Te Rarawa) Environmental Educator Whangārei Catherine has been a social justice and environmental defender most of her adult life, including official roles in iwi governance and advocating for Indigenous human rights at the United Nations. A former educator and proud grandmother, she is a member of Climate Action Tai Tokerau which works to build climate resilience while ensuring everyone has the basics for a dignified life. Creating kai sovereignty is one of her areas of aspirations for our local communities. She looks forward to working as a Zero Waste Educator with EcoSolutions and contributing to raising awareness and supporting action in Te Tai Tokerau at the local level to protect te taiao and people's wellbeing catherine@cbec.co.nz |
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Javiera Carrión Environmental Educator Whangārei Regenerative systems practitioner with 20+ years’ experience designing and delivering agroecology, land-use, and community learning initiatives across diverse cultural contexts. Brings together soil and organic systems expertise with facilitation and systems thinking to support community-led ecosocial regeneration. javiera@cbec.co.nz |
Testimonials
Thank you Anouk for your presentation to the Bay of Islands/Pewhairangi DOC staff yesterday. The meeting was well-attended and generated wide-ranging discussions that were stimulated by your depth of knowledge about and passion for the topic. The practical wax wrap session at the end really engaged staff that ordinarily are not that interested in the topic. We are looking forward to the next session.
Bay of Islands/Pewhairangi DOC
We are a small team in a very small office and yet we were not doing so well on the recycling front. Eco Solutions helped us to see where we needed improvement and helped us to get all our systems in place. We were super pleased to get our first award! We can now show it off with pride and are pleased to be seen to be doing the right thing.
Hannah, Alzheimers Northland Mid North Office
